19/01/2015 | Argentina

02/02/2015 | Argentina

Confirming what has been rumoured for several days, Federal Judge Ariel Lijo has dropped the complaint filed by late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

13/02/2015 | Argentina

07/10/2014 | Argentina

Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuán has formally requested Judge Claudio Bonadío that Vicepresident Amado Boudou is brought to trial for allegedly faking the papers of a car bought in 1992. The judge has put an end to the preliminary investigation stage.

02/10/2014 | Argentina

Federal judge María Servini de Cubría has cited Clemente Hurban, the adoptive father of Estela de Carlotto's recovered grandson, to give evidence as part of the investigation into the appropriation of the youngster during the 1976-83 military dictatorship.

06/10/2014 | Argentina

Former Economy minister Domingo Cavallo was acquitted in the trial for the 2001 “mega-swap” deal. The Federal Oral Court found him not guilty of carrying out “negotiations incompatible with public office” and the verdict will be announced on October, 17.

06/08/2014 | Argentina

Criminal Court N°24 has resolved to release members of rock band Callejeros, who were held criminally responsible and found guilty of negligence for the tragic fire in “República de Cromañón” club, which took the lives of 194 people in December 2004.

22/09/2014 | Argentina

Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich urged Citibank to “honour its obligations to transfer funds to (Argentina’s) bondholders" following the New York's Second Circuit Appeals Court dismissal of an appeal by Citigroup and Argentina that sought to overturn US Judge Thomas Griesa’s order blocking payment.

22/09/2014 | Argentina

Economy Minister Axel Kicillof responded to Citibank’s lawyer Karen Wagner comments that the bank had “a gun to its head” which would “probably go off” if the US Judiciary did not allow payment of funds blocked by US Judge Thomas Griesa. “The Citibank has no gun to its head, but the Argentine law,” Kicillof stated.

17/06/2014 | Argentina

25/06/2014 | Argentina

Asked about a Supreme Court’s demand for “railway passengers to be treated in a dignified way,” the cabinet chief said the request is “in accordance with the government’s efforts” and that a comprehensive report on the matter will be delivered to the Court.

08/07/2014 | Argentina

Holders of Argentine bonds held through Luxembourg’s Clearstream Clearing House joined Belgian bondholders in their demand to US Judge Thomas Griesa for an emergency ruling to help them recover the funds deposited in the Bank of New York Mellon by Argentina, blocked by the Judge.

16/06/2014 | Argentina

After the adverse US Court ruling in Argentina’s legal dispute with the so called vulture funds, Buenos Aires province Daniel Scioli called for “patriotism” and urged all sectors to line up behind the national government.

17/06/2014 | Argentina

Economy Minister Axel Kicillof has announced that the government plans to reopen the debt swap program in the hope of renegotiating bonds under Argentine jurisdiction, after the US Supreme Court declined to take Argentina's case against the 'vulture funds'.

17/06/2014 | Argentina

Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said the US Supreme Court’s decision to reject Argentina’s appeal on the hedge funds case “undermines the most successful sovereign debt restructuring process” and that it buffets “the foundations of a new perspective on international finances and economy”.

23/09/2013 | Argentina

21/11/2013 | Argentina

Camila Speziale, the 21-year-old Greenpeace activist that was arrested in Russia after taking part in an anti-oil drilling protest in the Arctic, has been released from prison two days after a St. Pertersburg court granted bail both to her and Hernán Pérez Orsi.

18/07/2013 | Argentina

After being a fugitive for the last six days, a federal court finally lifted the arrest warrant pending over former Transportation Secretary Ricardo Jaime, who must now wait to go to trial in the case investigating the over invoicing in railroad works for the Belgrano Cargas train company.

23/07/2013 | Argentina

Federal Judge Claudio Bonadío gave former Transportation Secretary Ricardo Jaime 48-hours to show up in court and provide the authorities with an official address in the case investigating alleged irregularities in the billing of works in the Belgrano Cargas train line.

18/06/2013 | Argentina

01/07/2013 | Argentina

The head of AFIP tax bureau, Ricardo Echegaray said that “it is improper for the Supreme Court as an institution to push for an audience with us in order to discuss matters strictly related to a taxpayer and his family.”

29/04/2013 | Argentina

Businessman Lázaro Báez showed up un court without previous notice and pressed charges against Leonardo Fariña and Federico Elaskar, who involved him in a money laundering scandal in a television show two weeks ago.

20/03/2013 | Argentina

BA City government seems determined to ratify its decision to increase Subway fares despite yesterday’s court rule that suspended the move. “They will not stop us,” Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta warned and targeted inflation and reduction in national government’s subsidies to justify the increase.

17/04/2013 | Argentina

The City’s Civil and Commercial Chamber ruled that articles 41 and 161 in the Media Law are constitutional. At the same time it unanimously ruled that some parts of articles 45 and 48 must be amended because they are unconstitutional.

09/02/2013 | Argentina

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner bit back at the criticisms made by the head of the AMIA Jewish community –Guillermo Borges- over the agreement made with Iran to create a truth commission and sustained that “the people and the Judiciary deserve to know” about a possible third terrorist attack.

19/02/2013 | Argentina

Only days before the first anniversary of the Once train tragedy that left 51 people dead, judge Claudio Bonadío scheduled to begin the oral proceedings in the case investigating former government officials, the owners of the TBA train company and the motorman responsible at the time of the accident.

27/02/2013 | Argentina

Argentina's defence urged a US appeals court today to come up with a "workable" solution to its long-running fight with so-called holdout bondholders, and assured the country will not pay an amount exceeding the one set in the debt-swaps.

13/12/2012 | Argentina

A day after President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for the democratization of the Judicial Branch, after being taken aback by the court’s decision in the Marita Verón case, Supreme Court Judge Raúl Zaffaroni showed his support, however "to a point."

14/12/2012 | Argentina

Alberto Piedrabuena, head of the Tucumán court that cleared all 13 defendants in the Marita Verón disappearance case, reaffirmed today that he would not be stepping down from his post any time soon and that he was “content and calm” with the decision that was made in court this week.

05/12/2012 | Argentina

Justice Minister Julio Alak ratified today that the Government considers that the Media Law will be fully implemented by Friday, December 7th, and warned that if a court tries to extend the injuction in favour of Clarín Group, that would be an uprising against the nation and a conflict of powers.

06/12/2012 | Argentina

A Federal Court decided to extend the extend the injunction exempting Grupo Clarín from having to disinvest and sell several television and radio licenses after Friday in order to comply with the new Media Law.

06/12/2012 | Argentina

Justice Minister Julio Alak assured that the ruling of the Civil and Commercial Court over the Media Law "confirmed what we have been claiming," and stated that the government "will call for the annulment of the ruling" via the "per saltum" resource.

22/11/2012 | Argentina

Argentina suffered a stinging blow late last night, when New York federal judge Thomas Griesa, citing threats by the country's leaders to defy his rulings in a decade-old dispute over defaulted sovereign bonds, ordered immediate payment.

22/11/2012 | Argentina

22/11/2012 | Argentina

Economy Minister Hernán Lorenzino assured during a press conference that "paying off the vulture funds is illegal," and said that the ruling by US District Judge Thomas Griesa against Argentina is "unfair." The minister also warned that Griesa's ruling might affect the international financial system, and the country as well.

01/11/2012 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured today that Argentina's dollar-denominated debt bonds are to be “paid in dollars” whilst criticizing a New York appeals court ruling that could force the country to repay creditors who have sued to collect on bonds in default since 2002, in a speech at the Government House today.

17/11/2012 | Argentina

Argentina asked a US judge late last night to maintain his order blocking payment on defaulted sovereign bonds to holdout investors until lingering questions are settled in a higher court's appeals process.

26/10/2012 | Argentina

A US appeals court said Argentina discriminated against bondholders who refused to take part in massive debt restructurings in 2005 and 2010 by deciding to pay them later than bondholders who agreed to participate.

26/10/2012 | Argentina

26/10/2012 | Argentina

Finance Secretary Adrián Cosentino assuredthat the ruling of an appeals court which partially confirmed the ruling of US judge Thomas Griesa in favour of vulture funds “is suspended from the moment it was issued,thus the current status quo has not been changed.”

31/07/2012 | Argentina

Former financial manager of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo foundation Sergio Schoklender requested Judge Ariel Lijo to recuse himself to investigate the Hebe de Bonafini’s charges of threat and asked the case is handed by the City Judiciary.

06/06/2012 | Argentina

Fernando Carrera, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty in the so-called “Pompeya Massacre,” was released on Wednesday from the Marcos Paz prison after the Supreme Court ruled that the case had to be reviewed and a new sentence had to be reached.

08/06/2012 | Argentina

City Mayor Mauricio Macri will stand trial over the illegal wiretapping probe, a court ruled. Macri is accused of being a member of an illicit organization which ilegally wiretapped City residents, politicians and businessmen.

26/06/2012 | Argentina

Suspect Sergio Schoklender testified once more before Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide in hopes that he may be released from jail as the case investigating the alleged embezzlement of public funds in the affordable housing programme managed by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Foundation.

29/03/2012 | Argentina

Mario Segovia, also known as the “ephedrine king,” was sentenced to nine years in prison accused of smuggling to Mexico almost 300 kilos of ephedrine in 12 tons of sugar to elaborate illegal synthetic drugs.

13/03/2012 | Argentina

The Supreme Court has ratified today a ruling of a Chubut’s court authorizing an abortion in the case of a woman that got pregnant after being raped. However, the head of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lorenzini emphasized that the ruling doesn’t mean the start of possible abortion legalization.

18/03/2012 | Argentina

The head of the Catholic Campus Ministry in Buenos Aires, Guillermo Marcó, continued to criticize the Supreme Court over its recent ruling in favour of legalizing abortions in case of rape and assured that the measure “legalizes abortion by bypassing Congress.”

21/03/2012 | Argentina

In an unexpected announcement, Salta governor Juan Manuel Urtubey said that despite the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion, it will still be mandatory in his province for rape victims to request a court permit before having their pregnancies interrupted.

02/01/2012 | Argentina

05/03/2012 | Argentina

The ongoing conflict between the City and the National Government over who takes over the management of the subway administration has landed in court. Mayor Mauricio Macri filed for a precautionary measure, City Hall sources confirmed.

09/11/2011 | Argentina

A court rejected the habeas corpus plea for Maria Marta García Belsunce’s brother Horacio, half brother John Hurting and brother in law Guillermo Bártoli, doctor Juan Gauvry Gordon and neighbour Sergio Binello, who were sentenced to jail for covering up the murder of the sociologist in 2002, deeming it "inadmissible."

27/12/2011 | Argentina

The Criminal Court in La Plata were to settle Osvaldo Martínez’s case for appeal today, after he was put into preventive custody for the murder of three women and a child at the end of November this year, judicial sources informed.

28/06/2011 | Argentina

The Supreme Court ruled in favour of same-sex partners seeking pension benefits. The ruling came after the highest court reversed a previous ruling neglecting a man of any pension benefits after the demise of his partner, whom he had shared his life with for over 40 years.

20/07/2011 | Argentina

A bond holder who sued Argentina when the country stopped paying its debt in 2002, received a favorable ruling from a US court, which blocked a debt swap of unpaid Brady bonds for a total amount of 270 million dollars, which were negotiated in 2011.

06/04/2011 | Argentina

A Federal Court rejected a request lodged by former Transportation Secretary Ricardo Jaime in which he asked to be temporarily allowed to fly to Brazil to work. Jaime is still under investigation since he is suspected of embezzlement during his time in office.

19/04/2011 | Argentina

Chubut’s gubernatorial elections are nearing a definition, although no winner can be officially claimed yet. Chubut’s High Court considered three of the ten contested polling stations as “valid”. Other five polling stations have been annulled, and on Wednesday, the remaining to will be defined by the court. On Thursday, the court will define if complementary voting will be held.

15/06/2011 | Argentina

Former INADI National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism institute heads Claudio Morgado and María Rachid have been summoned by a court to ratify their case against one another, in a scandal that ended with both parties resigning from their respective posts.

04/03/2011 | Argentina

Judge Marcelo Aguinsky urged the Argentine Customs Office to present a report of the US military aircraft seized in Ezeiza international airport within the next 48 hours, or it will be fined for 10,000 pesos per day of delay.

23/03/2011 | Argentina

After assuring he is in no way related to the Covelia rubbish collecting company, CGT labour confederation leader Hugo Moyano filed a lawsuit in Judge Oyarbide's court, arguing that the investigation against him led by a Swiss court was based on “irregular procedures.”

29/03/2011 | Argentina

Dentist Ricardo Barreda, who was charged with quadruple homicide, after killing his wife, two daughters and mother-in-law in 1992, was granted conditional release from his home arrest, court sources informed.

05/01/2011 | Argentina

The verdict of the Barreda trial came to a close as the court’s final decision was released. He will be freed on parole on Thursday “at the latest,” confirmed his lawyer, Eduardo Gutiérrez. After having made his plea, his lawyer had been anxiously awaiting the result of the case.

24/02/2011 | Argentina

Judge Susana Wilma López rejected Railroad Union chief José Pedraza’s request for his release, for which he is to remain in jail for his alleged connection to the murder of Workers’ Party leftist militant Marcelo Fereyra who was killed last October.

03/03/2011 | Argentina

City Judge María Cristina Nazar rejected a plea by the Ministry of Public Prosecution, requesting a series of raids and the arrest of six people in connection to the settlements in the Indoamericano Park in the Villa Soldati area.

18/02/2015 | World

11/11/2014 | World

The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing 304 passengers was jailed for 36 years today after a court found him guilty of negligence, but was acquitted of homicide for which prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

29/09/2014 | World

Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended an independence referendum called by Catalonia for November, although political forces in the wealthy north-east region forged ahead with a political campaign ahead of their planned vote.

27/03/2014 | World

A US appeals court upheld a Texas law that places restrictions on abortions, saying a provision requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital was a reasonable regulation.

07/04/2014 | World

His voice cracking with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defense today, saying the Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares.

15/04/2014 | World

An Italian court today ordered former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to serve a tax fraud sentence by doing community service and set travel restrictions that will limit his ability to campaign for next month's European Parliament elections.

19/12/2013 | World

The phones of Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, and Kate Middleton, the wife of his elder brother Prince William, were hacked by staff working for Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World tabloid, it was revealed in a London court today.

26/03/2014 | World

A Turkish court upheld an appeal today to end a blockage of Twitter which has provoked public outrage, local media said, though it was not immediately clear whether that meant the bar would be removed.

31/07/2013 | World

A British court rejected appeals for the right to die by a paralysed road accident victim and the family of a deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer today, saying only parliament should decide on matters of life and death.

09/12/2013 | World

An Egyptian court sentenced three supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to life imprisonment, judicial sources said, in the latest tough ruling against opponents of the army-backed interim government.

23/05/2013 | World

IMF chief Christine Lagarde was questioned in court by a French magistrate over her role in a 285-million-euro ($366 million) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

30/07/2013 | World

Italy's supreme court heard today Silvio Berlusconi's last appeal against a jail sentence and ban from public office for tax fraud in a case which could threaten the survival of the shaky coalition government.

07/01/2013 | World

The former graduate student accused of shooting a dozen people to death at a Colorado movie theatre last summer sat impassively in court today as police recounted the nightmarish mix of blood, tear gas, screams and flashing strobe lights they found in the darkened cinema.

25/02/2013 | World

A former treasurer of Spain's ruling party, at the heart of a corruption scandal that has hurt Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, was ordered to surrender his passport today while judges investigate millions of euros he deposited in Swiss banks.

01/03/2013 | World

A US appeals court ordered Argentina to provide “in precise terms” any alternative form of payment in which it commits to settle a current dispute with holdout bond investors asking for 1.3 billion dollars.

10/12/2012 | World

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a New York hotel maid who accused the former International Monetary Fund chief of sexually assaulting her agreed today to settle her civil lawsuit against him for an undisclosed sum, ending one chapter of a scandal that cost him his job and derailed his political career in France.

19/10/2012 | World

The sole member of anti-Kremlin punk group Pussy Riot freed on appeal has taken her case to the European Court of Human Rights, she and her lawyer said on Friday, accusing Russia of violating her right to freedom of speech and illegally detaining her.

23/07/2012 | World

The man accused of killing a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater during a showing of the new "Batman" film made his first appearance in court today, sitting silently in a red jailhouse jump suit and with his hair dyed bright red.

04/09/2012 | World

The US Justice Department is ramping up its rhetoric against BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it calls "gross negligence and willful misconduct."

12/09/2012 | World

Germany's Constitutional Court gave a green light for the country to ratify the euro zone's new bailout fund and budget pact, but insisted the German parliament have veto powers over any future increases in the size of the fund.

14/06/2012 | World

Britain's top court said today it had rejected an application by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, ending his last legal recourse in the British courts.

06/07/2012 | World

Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released from a Florida jail on $1 million bail, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

04/06/2012 | World

Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch volunteer charged in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, said they would ask a judge to release him from jail again after his bail was revoked last week.

12/04/2012 | World

A handcuffed George Zimmerman, charged in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, appeared in court for the first time in a hearing notable for what it did not include: a request for bail.

30/05/2012 | World

A French appeals court lifted a gagging order that prevented former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn from speaking to the media during a judicial investigation into his links with a suspected prostitution ring.

17/01/2012 | World

The US Supreme Court asked Barack Obama's administration for its views of a ruling that unfroze US$105 million of Argentina's central bank deposits in a setback for two US investment funds that sought to seize the money to satisfy their claims from the country's debt default a decade ago.

17/01/2012 | World

A Spanish judge who won fame with his attempt to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1990s denied breaching the rights of defendants in a trial many supporters say is a politically motivated vendetta against him.

25/02/2012 | World

The king of Spain's son-in-law appeared in court on charges of fraud and embezzlement in a case which threatens to tarnish a royal family credited with steering the country from dictatorship to democracy.

03/10/2011 | World

An Italian court cleared 24-year-old US citizen Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered them to be set free after nearly four years in prison for a crime they always denied committing.

27/12/2011 | World

An Egyptian civilian court ordered the army to end forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons, and the woman who won the legal victory urged other victims to press charges against the army.

13/01/2012 | World

An Oslo court today named two psychiatrists to conduct a new examination of Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Islam militant who killed 77 people last year, in an effort to end inflamed national debate over an initial report that found him psychotic.

28/05/2011 | World

An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds (US$91 million) for cutting off mobile and internet services during protests in January.

16/12/2010 | World

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was freed on bail while he fights extradition to Sweden over allegations of sex crimes, Britain's Press Association news agency reported. Assange is the target of US fury over WikiLeaks' release of secret diplomatic cables.

30/08/2012 | Latin America

A majority of Mexico's electoral tribunal judges rejected a bid by leftist leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador to overturn Enrique Peña Nieto's victory in the July 1 presidential election, which has left the country in political limbo.

03/03/2014 | Sports

The first witness at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial told the court today she heard "bloodcurdling screams" from a woman followed by shots, a dramatic opening to a case that could see one of global sports' most admired role models jailed for life.

19/08/2013 | Sports

South African Olympic and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, prayed and wiped away tears at a court hearing today which set a March 3, 2014 start date for his trial.

05/02/2013 | Arts and Media

Prosecutors asked a court to find R&B singer Chris Brown in violation of his probation because they say community service records stemming from his 2009 assault on girlfriend Rihanna contain "significant discrepancies."

14/11/2014 | Arts and Media

An Argentine court has ordered pop star Justin Bieber to appear before it within two months to face questions about an alleged assault on a photographer at a Buenos Aires nightclub last year, state-run news agency Télam reported.

18/08/2012 | Arts and Media

Madonna, who had already voiced her support for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, today joined a chorus of celebrities in slamming a jail sentence handed down in Moscow to three women from the group over a protest against President Vladimir Putin.

22/10/2012 | Arts and Media

Embattled US actress Lindsay Lohan appears to be off the hook after being arrested for leaving the scene of an accident last month when her Porsche allegedly clipped a pedestrian in an alley behind an upscale Manhattan hotel.

18/12/2012 | Arts and Media

The Metropolitan Museum of Art can keep a famed painting by Paul Cezanne that an art collector's great-grandson had argued was improperly acquired after being confiscated by the Russian Bolshevik regime a century ago, a US appeals court ruled today.

13/03/2014 | Multimedia

The Barack Obama administration will not support Argentina in its long-standing dispute with vulture funds suing the South American country over its defaulted bonds more than a decade ago, US State Secretary John Kerry has warned. Still, the American official praised what he considered some “positive steps” the Kirchnerite government has taken.